MIDDLESEX COUNTY – After a day of several power outages and restorations, power went out again late afternoon affecting South Amboy, Sayreville, Old Bridge and Monroe. As of 5:53 p.m., 1,820 customers of Sayrevlle and 867 in South Amboy were reported to be without power, while 45 in Old Bridge and less than five in Monroe were impacted.

Estimated restoration for the later power outages were not available, according to the JCP&L website.

JCP&L attributed the later day outages to severe weather while earlier power outages in four Middlesex County towns — South Amboy, Sayreville, Old Bridge and Spotswood —over the weekend was caused by equipment failures, according to a JCP&L spokesman.

Throughout the morning and afternoon Sunday, JCP&L, customers in South Amboy, Sayreville, Spotswood and Old Bridge were without power.

As of 10:15 a.m. 1,343 customers in South Amboy, 143 in Sayreville, eight in Old Bridge and fewer than five in Spotswood are listed as being without power. Later in the day, JCP&L updated the outages to 43 in Old Bridge, 1,817 in Sayrevile and 277 in South Amboy.

In addition, it was updated to reflect that power is expected to be restored to all 2,137 customers by 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

According to JCP&L spokesman Scott Takac, the power outages in the area were due to a "piece of equipment fail on a pole in the Freehold area."

"They are doing a staged restoration," he said. "Customers are being brought back up in stages."

For several, the loss of power began Saturday evening. According to South Amboy Police Sgt. J. Murray, half of the city went out about 7 p.m. Saturday. It was restored about four hours later.

"Then the other half went out," Murray said. "JCP&L is working on that now."

South Amboy resident John Avagliano said that since April 10, there have been several outages in his area.

"There has been at least seven times where the power has gone out," said Avagliano, who has called JCP&L several times about the issue. "I can understand if a car hits a pole; but there seems to be no apparent reason. This is very annoying. JCP&L must be called into account for these frequent power outages."